A 593: Requires an official inspection station to post a sign or poster informing customers that it is not authorized to inspect an altered motor vehicle unless the registrant presents a state DOT exemption letter, otherwise, such vehicle shall report to the Department of Transportation.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 593 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring an official inspection station to post a sign or poster informing custom- ers that it is not authorized to inspect certain vehicles The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 303 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision (c-1) to read as follows: 3 (c-1) Each official inspection station shall prominently display in an 4 area of the station where the orderly transaction of business of such 5 station occurs the following notice in conspicuous and legible twenty- 6 four point type on an eight and one-half inches by eleven inches sign or 7 poster stating in bold print the following: "THIS INSPECTION STATION IS 8 NOT AUTHORIZED TO INSPECT ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLES (STRETCH LIMOUSINES) 9 UNLESS THE REGISTRANT PRESENTS A STATE DOT EXEMPTION LETTER. OTHERWISE 10 SUCH VEHICLES SHALL REPORT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION." 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 12 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02090-01-5